Resource Guide

This guide is being developed under a grant from the US Environmental Protection Agency:

Grant Number: EPA Grant # T-980773-01

Grant Title - Traditional Knowledge and Contaminants Project: A Resource Guide for Measuring Contaminants in Native Foods

Grant Officer: Fran Stefan, stefan.fran@epamail.epa.gov 
(206)553-6639. EPA, 1200 6th Ave., Mail Stop 128, Seattle, WA 98101

Principal Investigator: Jack Kruse afjak@uaa.alaska.edu (413) 367-2240, 117 N. Leverett Rd., Leverett, MA 01054

We've organized the Resource Guide in four sections:

The "Getting Ready 1" section will help you  think through your community's concerns and questions. We also have links to information in the "Getting Ready 1" section that may help you get quick answers, particularly about abnormalities in animals.

The "Getting Ready 2" section will help you and a person we call a "Science Advisor" to figure out how best to address your community's question through a mini-grant.

If your community has a question that requires testing of samples of animals, fish, or plants for contaminants, we will work with your community to develop a  "Quality Assurance Project Plan" plan. The Environmental Protection Agency requires this plan. You'll see that the plan will help ensure that the testing done addresses your community's question.

The "Making it Work" section is about how we can work together to keep track of the mini-grant.

Please start with "Getting Ready 1".

It may also be that your community is about to work with our science advisor, Larry Merculieff. We've tried to identify the decisions your community has to make. See Community Decisions.